Garment supporter



May 6 1924.

c. B. WADE GARMENT SUPPORTER Filed Feb. 5. 1923 Patented May 1924.

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OF BAILEY IDAHO.

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Application flled February 8, 1923. Serial No. 616,749.

To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, CHARLIE B. WADE, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Hailey, county of Blaine, andState of 6 Idaho, have invented a new and useful Garment Supporter, ofwhich the following is a s ecification. I

y invention relates in general to a garment supporter and has referencemore par- 1 ticularly to a'device for supporting trousers to do awaywith the inconvenience of suspenders or belts. I

The primary object of my invention is to provide means for convenientlysupporting the trousers and also hold down the shirt to avoid theuncomfortable use of belts and suspenders. The invention possessesfurther objects and features which will appear as the description nowproceeds with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1is a detail perspective view of the supporting device; Figure 2 aperspective view illustrating the application of the invention; Figure 3is a detail view showing a portion of the shirt equipped with a buttonfor use in combination with the device; Figure 4 is a detail view inside elevation illustrating the application of theinvention showing thecooperative relation of the shirt with the same; Figure 5 is a verticalsection on the line 55 of Figure 4; and'Figure 6 a perspective view ofmodified form of garment su porter. p y

. eferring now to the drawing in detail A represents a pair of ordinarytrousers having the usual band B. According to my invention I propose toequip the'inside of the band B with buttons as at (5) and to provide acomplementary button (6) atoppo- 4 site sides of the shirt C. In someinstances to allow for adjustment of the same the side of the shirt maybe equipped with buttonholes such as (7) so that the height of thebutton (6) may be adjusted.

The supporter per se comprises an irregular shaped plate (8) which isstamped or otherwise formed from a sheet metal blank to leave'a slightlycurved elongated slot (9) in the top thereof, the slot being enlarged asat (10), so that in applying the device to the inside of the band of thetrousers the buttons (5) may first be introduced to the slot through theenlarged opening at (10) then by manipulating the device, as well as theband, the buttons may be retained in the semi-circular ends (11) of theslot. The shoulders provided as at (12) will maintain the buttons inplace.

Depending downwardly from the slot (9) is a bifurcated extension (13),the same terminating in round ends (14) with the slot (15) between thesame, the slot terminating in a substantially circular opening (16) asshown.

In using the device the trouser band is first equipped with a air of thesupporting members as shown in igure 2 so that when the shirt is wornthe buttons (6) carried thereby may be slipped into the slots (15) wherethey will be seated in the openings (16) as best shown in Figure 4, andthe shirt in this waymay be relied upon to support the trousers; thusavoiding the necessity of wearing suspenders or belts.

The modified form of garment supporter (17) shown in Figure 6 presentssubstantially the same features as the one reviously described, but ismade of di erent material. It comprises in its principal fea tures awire (18) bent to define the elon ated slot (19) with rounded ends (20)an the downwardly opening slot (21) adapted to receive the buttonsecured to the shirt. A spacing member (22) is employed to lend rigidityto the device.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a garment supporter formed of a singlepiece of metal of substantially T form having a long horizontal branchat its upper end and a depending central branch, the long branch havingholes therein at its respective ends adapted to engage with buttons atthe waist line of a pair of trousers, and the central short branchhaving its lower end formed with a substantially inverted U shaped holeto receive the button of a shirt.

CHARLIE B. WADE.

